Abstract

Caesar challenges the Gauls to perform twelve difficult tasks (a la Hercules) to prove that they are in fact Gods. Asterix & Obelix come forth to conquer all obstacles set before them... This is a bit different. It's a book from the movie. Several of the books were made into movies (Asterix and Cleopatra was pretty decent, but this went the other way). It has pictures, but only as illustrations (drawn, not from the movie), and it has a heck of a lot more text. It doesn't seem to be written by Goscinny and Uderzo, nor translated by Bell and Hockridge. Not much to do here, it's written to a lower level. All of it is non-canonical. Harry Fluks has version that is by G&U, and consists of a newspaper strip transformed to album format. I don't think it exists as an English print. Wah! Despite the strange language of this book, Glen Koorey says that his book says that it was, indeed, translated by Bell and Hockridge.